Predictions on How the Trump Administration Could Handle ESSA Rules

November 14, 2016 - 4:40pmAlyson Klein Education Week

The incoming Trump administration will likely embrace the local control sprit of the Every Student Succeeds Act—and might move to make big changes to pending regulations, predicted current and former GOP Hill staffers at a panel Monday.

Trump and Company will likely “return to a more balanced federal-state partnership,” Vic Klatt, a principal at Penn Hill Group, told those at an Education Writer’s Association session. “And I think the education world is going to ultimately go, ‘Phew’. No more wacky changes from the federal level.”